ESOF is an iniatitive of Euroscience that was launched in Stockholm in 2004 and has grown up to one of the largest multidisciplinary public facing science conferences. It takes place every two years, and has so far been in Stockholm, Munich, Barcelona, Turin, Dublin and Copenhagen.

The second edition of the ALICE Analysis Tutorial was held during the July ALICE week at CERN. The event, organized by Chiara Bianchin, Jochen Klein, Rosi Reed, Marta Verweij, and Michael Weber, was a full success. The large attendance of more than 50 participants in the lecture room and almost 70 connected via Vidyo shows the interest and need for this tutorial.

The ALICE ITS Upgrade and O2 Asian Workshop took place in Krabi, Thailand, between 16 and 18 June 2014. It was sponsored by the Suranaree University of Technology (SUT), the Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI), and the Thai Physics Society (THPS). The workshop is biannual and offers groups from East Asian countries that participate in the ITS upgrade the opportunity to meet, discuss, and present their plans.

Speaking at press conference held during the 37th International Conference on High Energy PhysicsExternal Links icon, ICHEP, in Valencia, Spain, this morning CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer summarized the results being presented from CERN.

The winners of the recent ALICE football tournament, organized by Karel Safarik and Anthony Timmins, were the Particle Wanderers. Congratulations go to the captain, Stefan Heckel, and the rest of the team - Harald Appelshaeuser, Mesut Arslandok, Theo Broeker, Taku Gunji, Patrick Reichelt, Marian Ivanov.

“You are a great amplification factor, you hold the future of science in your hands” – these were the words of greeting from Mick Storr (CERN, University of Birmingham) addressed to about 40 teachers of physics – participants in the Education Programme event held at St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University (SPbSPU - Polytech) on 22 June 2014. “You are doing an extremely important job.